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|In this tautly brilliant vel, Jacques De Lacretelle recounts the story of a Parisian schoolboy belonging to a protestant bourgeois family who, though fascinated by the intelligence and ardour of a Jewish fellow schoolmate, bows to the prejudices of this milieu and finally betrays his chosen friend.| - Bernard Miret

Author Biography

(1888-1985) was a novelist, hournalis, and member of the academie francaise. Silbermann, his second novel, was orginally published in 1922 and was awarded the Prix Femina.